Leave is awarded based on contract length and your position type. Leave balances are available on Frontline Absence Management linked here.

Please refer to the district leave policy GCBDA: PROFESSIONAL STAFF SHORT-TERM LEAVES (for certified staff) or click here for Policy GDBDA: SUPPORT STAFF LEAVES (for classified staff). You may also see your supervisor for specific guidelines on the use of leave.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible to take advantage of FMLA benefits, an employee must:

• Have been employed by the district for 12 months (not necessarily consecutively).

• Have been employed for 1,250 hours of service during the 12 month period right before the leave.

• Be employed at a site where 50 or more employees are employed by the district within 75 miles of that site.

All eligible employees are entitled to leave for a period not to exceed 12 workweeks per leave year.

QUALIFICATIONS

An absence may quality for FMLA benefits if it is for one of the following:

•  Birth and first-year care of the employee's child.

• Adoption or foster placement of a child with the employee.

• Serious health condition of the employee that makes the employee unable to perform one or more of the essential functions of his or her job or the serious health condition of the employee's spouse, child or parent.

• Care of a spouse, child, parent or next of kin who is a covered servicemember (including some veterans) with a serious illness or injury (military caregiver leave).

• A qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the spouse, child or parent of the employee is on covered active duty, or has been notified of an impending call or order to covered active duty, in the Armed Forces.

For more information on and to read the District's full FMLA policy, please click here to access Policy GBBDA: FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE.

Upon the death of an employee's immediate family member, employees may take up to two days off with pay to attend the funeral or make funeral arrangements. The District may require verification of the need for the leave.

The board defines "immediate family" to include: the employee's spouse, parent, grandparent, child, sibling, daughter or son-in-law, father or mother-in-law, brother or sister-in-law, grandchild, or non-family residing within the staff member’s home.

After the exhaustion of the two days of bereavement leave, the employee may use leave. Bereavement leave is not accumulative.

For more information on and to read the District's full short-term leave policy, click here to access Policy GCBDA: PROFESSIONAL STAFF SHORT-TERM LEAVES (for certified staff) or click here for Policy GDBDA: SUPPORT STAFF LEAVES (for classified staff).